2016 Death Note Casts Miyuki Sawashiro as New Shinigami

The official website of Death Note Light up the NEW world, this year's live-action Death Note sequel film, revealed on Monday that voice actress Miyuki Sawashiro will play Ama, a new Shinigami character for the film. Original Death Note manga artist Takeshi Obata designed the character from director Shinsuke Sato's request of a "seductive and beautiful Shinigami," while using the Shinigami character Sidoh from the manga as a base. Ama likes Muscat grapes, and feels greater sympathy toward humans than most Shinigami.

The site previously streamed a trailer earlier this month that offered a brief glimpse of Ama.

The new film will open in Japan on October 29. A three-episode prequel mini-series titled Death Note NEW GENERATION will premiere on Hulu on September 16 this Friday. Don't forget

Australian distributor Madman Entertainment previously streamed an English-subtitled trailer for the film in August.

In Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata's original 2003-2006 supernatural suspense manga, a teenager named Light finds a notebook with which he can put people to death by writing their names. He begins a self-anointed crusade against the criminals of the world, and a cat-and-mouse game begins with the authorities and one idiosyncratic genius detective.

In the new film's story, a highly advanced information society is beset by global cyber-terrorism in 2016. New charismatic figures, who "inherited the DNA" of Light (previously played Tatsuya Fujiwara) and the detective L (Ken'ichi Matsuyama), emerge. The successors of the two geniuses will wage a war over six Death Notes on Earth.

A crucial plot element will be the "Six-Note Rule": only six Death Notes are allowed to exist at a time in the human world. Of course, the Shinigami (Gods of Death) themselves are limited to the number of Death Notes. Therefore, up to six Shinigami may exist in the human world. This rule existed in the original manga, but previous adaptations in the franchise have not used this rule thus far.​